reading about text justification https://lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/

The system was written down by Ibn Muqla, Abbasid vizier and chief calligrapher, who served three caliphs in succession and was imprisoned by two of them; the third had his right hand amputated on a charge of treasonous correspondence, and Ibn Muqla then kept writing for the next several months by lashing a reed pen to the stump of his wrist, and was rewarded for what he wrote by having his tongue cut out, and died in prison around the year 940. His body was buried three times in three different places, his daughter moving it after each interment to keep the grave out of police hands. The system he wrote down outlasted everybody who hurt him by a thousand years.

i would gladly die like this for this reason

So, it turns out e-ink displays are absolutely capable of 60fps.

The problem is that (until now) no-one has bothered to combine the display with a the more expensive chips that would be required to drive that.

So, that shitty slow refresh in your ereader or e-ink tablet? Yeah. That's the manufacturer being cheap.

Video of 1 person's journey to create a fast e-ink display.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHbA2-_qzH4

nearly funded Crowd Supply campaign to get one https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-flow

#eink

Good morning Mastodon! Remember when you were in primary school and went on school trips to places teachers thought were important or free, and retained nothing from them except for who was sick on whom on the way there? Now you're older and nerdier did you ever think "Actually it might be really interesting to visit a major piece of civic infrastructure and learn how it works?" Just me? Well I was in luck today because the University sustainability team has organised a tour of #Exeter Energy Recovery Facility in #MarshBarton, where all our non-recyclable rubbish ends up.

https://www.viridor.co.uk/energy/energy-recovery-facilities/exeter-erf/